These are all of my egghead.io lessons that are about webpack.

Webpack is a module bundler that bundles javascript and other assets for the browser. It works really well for applications and javascript libraries and is very simple frontend build tool.

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Intro to Webpack

Webpack loaders are how you tell webpack to resolve your dependencies and you can use a loader built for the babel transpiler to easily enable ES6 code in your project. Full sourcemap support is also available using webpack's devtool property.

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Webpack Loaders, Source Maps, and ES6

Webpack enables modularity by allowing you to require the styles needed for a particular component. Adding preprocessors is a breeze and it simplifies the deployment of your css assets.

Webpack CSS, Preprocessors, and url assets

Currently, our library is being distributed as a CommonJS module, but we should support the browser as well. In this lesson, we're going to use [`webpack`](http://webpack.github.io/) to create a [`UMD`](https://github.com/umdjs/umd) (Universal Module Definition) build of our module so users can consume it in a browser.

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Add a browser build to an npm module

Webpack is a module bundler for the web. It is incredibly powerful and enables modularity in angular applications. This is the first of several lessons to get you up and going with webpack in Angular applications.

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AngularJS with Webpack - Introduction

With Webpack and CommonJS, the way you register directives, services, etc. with your modules can be a lot more modular. See how to register a directive with an Angular module using Webpack.

AngularJS with Webpack - Requiring Directives

With Angular, most of the time you're specifying a templateUrl for your directives and states/routes. This means you need to make sure that you're loading in these templates into the $templateCache for your tests and production. Oh, and don't forget to update all your URLs whenever you move the files around! When you add in Webpack and the raw-loader, you don't need to do this anymore. Simply require the html file and your work is done!

AngularJS with Webpack - Requiring Templates

Use the latest features of ECMAScript using BabelJS with Webpack. Simply add the right loader line in your webpack config and everything just works.

AngularJS with Webpack - ES6 with BabelJS

Making your CSS modular is a difficult thing to do, but using Webpack makes this so much easier. By adding a single line to your Webpack config, you can require you CSS, Stylus, Less, etc. files right from your directives and keep everything together.

AngularJS with Webpack - Requiring CSS & Preprocessors

Testing in Angular applications takes a bit of setup. Webpack simplifies things considerably. In this lesson you'll see how to test an Angular application built with Webpack using karma, mocha, and chai.

AngularJS with Webpack - Testing with Karma, Mocha, and Chai

Using Angular with webpack makes the production build a breeze. Simply alter your webpack configuration at runtime based on an environment variable, and you're good to go.

AngularJS with Webpack - Production Setup

Angular requires some careful consideration when uglifying your code because of how angular's dependency injection system works. See how easy it is to add this consideration to your webpack configuration so you can minify your Angular JavaScript with Webpack.

AngularJS with Webpack - Uglifying your JavaScript

When you uglify your Angular code with Webpack's uglify plugin, debugging your application can be a nightmare. See how easy it is to add source maps to your bundle so you can easily debug even in production.

AngularJS with Webpack - Production Source Maps

There are several lessons that will build on top of this project. It is a fairly standard, small webpack bundled project. In this lesson we’ll explore the project a bit so you’re familiar with how things are set up for future lessons.

Intro to the Production Webpack Course

It’s quite common to make a mistake while developing your webpack configuration. A simple typo can cost you hours of development time. With [webpack-validator](http://npm.im/webpack-validator), you can save yourself a ton of time by validating that your webpack configuration is free of common mistakes.

Note: Webpack 2 now has validation baked in.

Validate your Webpack config with webpack-validator

The less code you can send to the browser, the better. The concept of tree shaking basically says that if you’re not using some piece of code, then exclude it from the final bundle, even when that piece of code is exported from a module. Because ES6 modules are statically analyzable, Webpack can determine which of your dependencies are used and which are not. In this lesson, see how to take advantage of this awesome feature in Webpack 2.

Tree shaking with Webpack 2

If you're going to use code splitting with Webpack 2, you'll need to make sure the browser has support for the ES6 `Promise` API. This means that if you are required to support an old browser, you need to provide a polyfill. Polyfilling is relatively trivial to do with Webpack, but because Webpack itself depends on this particular polyfill, you have to come up with another way of doing so. In this lesson, we'll see how we can use the [polyfill.io](https://cdn.polyfill.io/v2/docs/) service to automatically polyfill this API (and others) for us.

Polyfill Promises for Webpack 2

As a Single Page Application grows in size, the size of the payload can become a real problem for performance. In this lesson, learn how to leverage code splitting to easily implement lazy loading for your application to load only the code necessary for a particular feature or functionality.

Maintain sane file sizes with webpack code splitting

Leveraging the browser cache is an important part of page load performance. A great way to utilize this cache is by versioning your resources. In this lesson, learn how to use Webpack’s hashing feature so you can take advantage of long term caching of your assets.

Hashing with Webpack for long term caching

Often, you have dependencies which you rarely change. In these cases, you can leverage the CommonsChunkPlugin to automatically put these  modules in a separate bundled file so they can be cached and loaded separately from the rest of your code (leveraging the browser cache much more effectively).

Grouping vendor files with the Webpack CommonsChunkPlugin

If you have a multi-page application (as opposed to a single page app), you’re likely sharing modules between these pages. By chunking these common modules into a single common bundle, you can leverage the browser cache much more powerfully. In this lesson we’ll use webpack’s CommonsChunkPlugin to easily share common modules between apps.

Chunking common modules from multiple apps with the Webpack CommonsChunkPlugin

You can fine tune several webpack plugins to make your bundle as small as it can be for your specific application. However there are a few things you can do for pretty much every application to make it smaller and run faster. In this lesson we’ll combine several webpack plugins to optimize things for a React application (this is also applicable for non-React applications as well).

Optimize React size and performance with Webpack production plugins

When you have a dependency that has dependencies on global variables (like jQuery or lodash) or assumes that `this` is bound to `window`, you can use the [imports-loader](https://github.com/webpack/imports-loader) to provide those dependencies explicitly.

Expose modules to dependencies with Webpack

When you have a dependency that does not export itself properly, you can use the [`exports-loader`](https://npmjs.com/package/exports-loader) to force it to export the pieces of the file that you need.

Import a non-ES6 module with Webpack

There are several steps involved with setting up [`Karma`](http://karma-runner.github.io/) to work on your webpack project. In this first step we'll initialize our karma configuration and setup our `package.json` `scripts`.

Initialize a Webpack Project with Karma for Testing

[Chai](https://npmjs.com/package/chai) assertions work great with the [Mocha](https://npmjs.com/package/mocha) testing framework. In this lesson we'll walk through out to install Chai and [karma-chai](https://npmjs.com/package/karma-chai) so you can use the `expect` assertions in your tests.

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Use Chai assertions for tests in a Karma project

When writing tests run by Karma for an application that’s bundled with webpack, it’s easiest to integrate webpack and Karma directly together. In this lesson we’ll see how to utilize the [`karma-webpack`](https://npmjs.com/package/karma-webpack) plugin and reuse our existing webpack configuration to preprocess our test files with webpack.

Use Karma for Unit Testing with Webpack

How much of your code runs during unit testing is an extremely valuable metric to track. Utilizing code the [`karma-coverage`](https://npmjs.com/package/karma-coverage) plugin and [`babel-plugin-__coverage__`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/babel-plugin-__coverage__) plugin, we can get an accurate measure of how well we’re covering the files that we are testing.

Add Code Coverage to tests in a Webpack project

If you’re only instrumenting the files in your project that are under test then your code coverage report will be misleading and it will be difficult for you to track or enforce improvements to application coverage over time. In this lesson we’ll learn how to ensure all source files are included in coverage reports and how to enforce a specific threshold so you can work toward improving application code coverage.

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Kent C. Dodds

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